This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... rest , but rest had to be farther along the road . The baby was to stay , and a name had to be decided on . My great grandfather was William Duvall . My father had a young cousin in Paris , William Hathaway , called " Willie " by the ...
... rest , but rest had to be farther along the road . The baby was to stay , and a name had to be decided on . My great grandfather was William Duvall . My father had a young cousin in Paris , William Hathaway , called " Willie " by the ...
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... rest of his life . At one time Missouri Ann took her oldest children and crawled under the crib to pick up the grains of corn they could find , taking the rat - gnawed and weevilly with the rest . They crushed the little pieces into a ...
... rest of his life . At one time Missouri Ann took her oldest children and crawled under the crib to pick up the grains of corn they could find , taking the rat - gnawed and weevilly with the rest . They crushed the little pieces into a ...
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... rest of my life I would end up without an education . The first week in November I walked my feet weary on the streets of East Dallas . It was my birthday week and I was sixteen . I knew I had reached the point where I had to go one way ...
... rest of my life I would end up without an education . The first week in November I walked my feet weary on the streets of East Dallas . It was my birthday week and I was sixteen . I knew I had reached the point where I had to go one way ...
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